Beijing’s Olympic Games will open on Friday August 8, 2008, at 8pm local time. In the marketing and media sectors there is ferocious activity as companies race to prepare. But as Universal McCann discuss in a recent paper, in many respects this race would be happening even without the Olympics as China’s marketing infrastructure is in a big […]
I’ve been meaning to do this update for a few days - but that has been useful to run this topic by a few people. My interest has been sparked by attending a BSAC event on Monday night in the West End, which focused on new models of funding for the games industry, and ways […]
Aw - how come I always miss the fun stuff. I’m away on holiday unfortunately, but I love the idea of an ‘unconference’ for games full of informal fun types of learning and playing and things.
Saturday May 3rd then. Will you be going?
All the details: www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamecamp
It’s exciting and fantastic - a whole world of questions and responses - what do you think about your industry, what are your skills needs, and, how old are you?
We’re asking all these and more of everyone in the Creative Media sector, there’ll be so much information, I’m sure we’ll struggle to find uses for […]
News from Japan. Famitsu reports (no - can’t read Japanese either) that Nintendo is opening its ‘Game Seminar 2008′ for applications. Develop has all the details (in English).
How exciting is that - being a lifelong nintendo fanboy who still feels perpetual guilt over not having bought a Wii yet (low ceilings - best not to really) […]
News is out (alright I’m a day or so behind) that Channel 4 is sponsoring Dare to be Digital this year. But - interestingly it’s not a hands off, give the money and run number. Channel 4 have offered an optional brief to the teams of students on the competition to produce something specifically with […]
In an interesting thinkpiece on the BBC, Bill Thompson puts out a call for more people to engage with programmers, citing the proliferation of complex PC’s and software as one of the reasons behind a decline in the numbers of people creating new and innovative software.
It’s true that in the modern creative industries, there are […]
Develop Magazine have the first interview with new Tiga CEO Richard Wilson up at the moment. In the first part published yesterday he covered tax breaks and international competition. More interesting to us is today’s feature that focuses on skills.
Richard has an interesting point of view as someone from outside the sector - recoginising the ‘classic trade […]
Book now! Hurry!
As we’ve said before on this blog this a must attend event for anyone with a vested interest in Higher Education and Games, and will be a key focus for discussions on our own accreditation work.
You can sign up now for the Manchester event on the 29th April:
www.gamesedu.co.uk/register-now-north
Or for the Brighton event (during Develop […]
The 2008 Develop 100 is out next month and there is (inevitably) a sneak peak online now, Develop reports that 26 UK studios made the top 100 this year which is good news considering the pressures UK devs are facing at the minute.
The full list is out with the April issue of Develop but you can […]